Claude Jutra Award

The Claude Jutra Award is a special Canadian film award, presented at the annual Genie Award ceremony to the year's best feature film by a first-time film director. It should not be confused with the Prix Jutra, a separate awards ceremony conducted by the Quebec film industry.

The Claude Jutra Award is a juried prize whose winner is announced in advance of the Genie Award ceremony, although the prize is formally presented to the winner at the ceremony. As of 2012, three films, Le Confessional, Atanarjuat and Away from Her, have won both the Claude Jutra Award and the Best Picture Genie in the same year.

Winners

Year	Film	Director
1993	The Grocer's Wife	John Pozer
1994	Louis 19, le roi des ondes (Louis 19, King of the Airwaves)	Michel Poulette
1995	Le Confessional (The Confessional)	Robert Lepage
1996	Joe's So Mean to Josephine	Peter Wellington
1997	The Hanging Garden	Thom Fitzgerald
1998	Last Night	Don McKellar
1999	Post Mortem	Louis Bélanger
2000	La Moitié gauche du frigo (The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge)	Philippe Falardeau
2001	Atanarjuat	Zacharias Kunuk
2002	Flower & Garnet	Keith Behrman
2003	Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause (How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause)	Sébastien Rose
2004	La Peau blanche (White Skin)	Daniel Roby
2005	Familia	Louise Archambault
2006 (tie)	Eve and the Fire Horse	Julia Kwan
	La Vie secrète des gens heureux (The Secret Life of Happy People)	Stéphane Lapointe
2007	Away from Her	Sarah Polley
2008	Tout est parfait (Everything Is Fine)	Yves Christian Fournier
2009	J'ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother)	Xavier Dolan
2010	Sortie 67 (Exit 67)	Jephté Bastien
2011	Nuit #1 (Night #1)	Anne Émond